1831] JAMES FENIMORE-COOPER 211

Country wherewithal to buy our Staples, it is said they
will import specie. Most certainly they would not do this
unless from dire necessity, because their ships would come
in ballast, and they would sink the freight, commissions,
and profits upon a cargo of merchandize. The single
operation of carrying our Cotton out would not Defray
the double voyage. Could we keep, or had we even now
the entire monopoly of supplying them with Cotton,
Rice, and Tobacco, we might perhaps drive them into a
Trade similar to that carried on between this Country
and China. Unfortunately for us however there are other
Countries to which they can resort for the same commodi-
ties, and there are other articles they can substitute in
their place, while the world can go nowhere else but to
China for Tea, nor use any thing in its stead. And were
it possible, would not our merchants and ship owners
suffer in common with theirs by being debarred by the
freight and sales of the Cargoes to our Ports.?

That we shall not be able to compel Great Britain, or
the rest of the world, to buy our Cotton with specie, or
go without, we need no other demonstration than the duty
lately proposed in Parliament to protect India Cotton,
and the following advices from Liverpool under date of
26th March last:

"There seems no chance for fine Sea Islands. The low
price of Silk Goods., the improved quality of Egyptian
Cottons, and the improved state of our machinery,
enabling us to produce a finer article from a raw material
of inferior quality, all operate against fine Cottons, and
must do so permanently."

By the blessings of the Tariff here is a recipe for our
total destruction. We will not take the manufactures of
England, and it is therefore her interest to deal with somements, but there their consequence terminates.